A poetry reading reading and conversation with Vandana Khanna and Nicole Callihan.
Born in New Delhi, India, Vandana Khanna is a writer, educator, and editor. She is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently, Burning Like Her Own Planet (Alice James Books, 2023). Her previous collections have won the Crab Orchard Review First Book Prize, The Miller Williams Poetry Prize, and the Diode Editions Chapbook Competition. Her poems have been published in The New Republic, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, New England Review, Guernica, and The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry.
Nicole Callihan’s most recent book, chigger ridge, was selected by Sandra Lim to receive The Tenth Gate Prize and was published by The Word Works in June 2024. Other books include This Strange Garment (Terrapin 2023) and the 2019 novella, The Couples. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Conduit, The American Poetry Review, and as a Poem-a-Day selection from the Academy of American Poets. Winner of an Alma Award, her next book, SLIP, will be published by Saturnalia in 2025.